Puzzles
The art of cyborg assembling

Work: puzzles
Date: 2001
Producer: France Cadet
Partner: Digitalarti
Framed series:
Edition: 5 copies
Size: 40 x 50 cm
To assemble yourself:
Edition: 10 copies
> box: 33.6 x 23.2 x 3.6 cm
> puzzle: 41.2 x 29.8 cm
> photo scale 1 for the model: 39 x 28.5 cm
> Mount: 40 x 50 cm

Discover a new generation of toys that blithely mix the living and the artificial, through technological innovation. With France Cadet’s dancers, you can bring home a transgender ballet celebrating the merging of humanity and robotics. There are 2 models, "Petits Rats" and "Ballerines", available in 3 versions: a triptych, a diptych and a single puzzle. Cyborg Ballerinas and “petit rats” (child ballerinas), in an X-rayed manner are quite surprising: the artist has swapped parts between human dancers and their robotic alter ego, thus implementing prostheses or artificial grafts. The flesh and mechanical components interlock, according to creative fantasies. We also discover dancers revealing a disturbing anatomy, whether it be external (skin) or internal (bone and muscular system). You can choose an already framed version or, for the DIY enthusiasts, a version to assemble yourself, sold in a box.

Sensuality and an innovative precision to serve the future

Born in 1971, France Cadet is a French artist whose work deals with a
reflection on the limits of science: the danger of potential accidents,
animal or human behavioral study, the artificialisation of life, the
deleterious effects of cloning, animal experimentation or eugenics. A
teacher at the Art of Aix-en-Provence Art School, she first studied
science before turning to art studies. Her multimedia installations
benefit from her dual expertise. By daring to explore robotics and our
fears of new technologies, France Cadet creates unique, sensual, funny,
sometimes disturbing works whose ways of operating are always puzzling:
toys, video games, pets, robots…